The Orange Moon Affair (a Thomas Gunn
Thriller)
by AFN
Clark
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BLURB:
Thomas
Gunn (ex-Special Forces) and his partner Julie are running for their lives. Who
are they running from? And why? It all starts when Thomas decides to
investigate the mysterious murder of his billionaire industrialist father. He’s
shocked when his every move is blocked, especially by top levels of the UK
government. But when his attempts to track down an elusive American business
partner of his father’s turn lethal, he and Julie become moving targets, racing
to outwit those who clearly want them dead. The danger rapidly escalates when
Thomas is reluctantly compelled back into working for British Military
Intelligence, exposing an international conspiracy that puts the freedom of the
western world at grave risk.
But
who are these ruthless conspirators that wield such unimaginable power? How are
they connected to his father? And what dark secrets from the past will Thomas
uncover in his relentless quest for the truth? This action-packed thriller
spans the UK, USA and Europe and keeps you guessing to the very last page!
“The
Orange Moon Affair” and “The Jonas Trust Deception”, the second in the series,
have been hailed by the San Francisco Book Review as “fast-paced books you
won't want to put down and you won't want them to finish." Available from
Amazon (ebook and paperback).
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Excerpt
Nightmares crowded my sleep and I woke in a sweat, some
twelve hours later, gasping for air and thought that Julie’s death was just a
nightmare, a figment of my imagination. But I knew it wasn’t.
I needed air and crawled to the door leading out onto the
patio that overlooked the beach and the Sea of Cortez. It felt similar to Gozo,
but it was subtly different; the smell of dry sage tinged the slight breeze and
somewhere close by, lingering smoke from a mesquite barbecue blew lazily across
the beach. Bile rose in my mouth and I dry retched onto the sand as the image
of Julie, bloodied and broken in the helicopter, blasted into my mind.
The moment passed and I sat at the water’s edge as small
wavelets ran up the beach and sank into the sand.
Julie’s death killed something in me. Something I thought I
had recovered from after my last tour in Afghanistan. She gave my life a soul
that had been destroyed, and now with her death, my soul was as dark as it had
ever been.
De Costas would pay for her death.
All that was left in me was the instinct for survival and revenge;
the only emotion, pure hatred for the man that had caused all this. It was this
that had kept me alive when I should have been dead. It was this that created
the desire to fight back to full health.
An hour later I hobbled slowly back to the bedroom, lay down
and fell into a dreamless sleep.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
AFN Clarke is a full-time author, screenwriter, the son of a
British MI6 operative, former officer in Britain's elite Parachute Regiment,
pilot, sailor, racecar driver and father of four who's lived in Hong Kong,
India, Libya, Iran, Europe, the UK, USA, and Australia. He's written seven
books of fiction and his bestselling memoir, CONTACT, was serialized in a
British newspaper and made into an award-winning BBCTV film.
This rich background allows Clarke to bring his own unique and eye
opening experiences to his latest Thomas Gunn thriller series that are
fast-paced, thought provoking and frighteningly real and have captured the
imagination of readers world-wide. As he says: "For me, good books are a
great way to shut out every day life, suspend normal ways of thinking, and
allow yourself to be captivated by another world. That’s what I continually
strive to deliver to my readers."
Books include: The Orange Moon Affair and The Jonas Trust
Deception (Thomas Gunn thrillers), Contact, An Unquiet American, Dry Tortugas,
Dreams from the Death Age and Armageddon (The Book of Baker Satire Series),
Collisions, with more coming soon. Available from Amazon; coming soon to Nook,
iBooks, and Kobo.
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Giveaway:
the excerpt was great, thank you :)
ReplyDeleteGlad you liked the excerpt, thanks for stopping by and participating. (AFN Clarke (author)
ReplyDeleteLoving the excerpt, very interesting!
ReplyDeleteGlad you liked it - it comes at a critical point in the story, a real turning point for the main character Thomas Gunn and the beginning of a very personal journey as well, trying to reconcile the person he was once trained to be with the person he would rather become. Thanks, AFN Clarke (author)
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